Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way (2002)
Album
Artist/Composer Red Hot Chili Peppers
Length 68:38
Format CD
Genre Funk Rock; General Rock; General Alternative
Label Warner Bros.
Index 47
In Collection Yes
Track List
01 By The Way 03:37
02 Universally Speaking 04:19
03 This Is The Place 04:17
04 Dosed 05:12
05 Don't Forget Me 04:37
06 The Zephyr Song 03:52
07 Can't Stop 04:29
08 I Could Die For You 03:13
09 Midnight 04:55
10 Throw Away Your Television 03:44
11 Cabron 03:38
12 Tear 05:17
13 On Mercury 03:28
14 Minor Thing 03:37
15 Warm Tape 04:16
16 Venice Queen 06:07
Personal
Price € 0,00
Rating 70%
Details
Spars DDD
Rare No
Sound Stereo
Notes
When the Red Hot Chili Peppers first appeared smeared in neon body paint with socks dangling precariously from their cocks, even the most faithful funk-metal convert couldn't have conceived they would be around some 20 years later, carrying on in much the same fashion. Despite a long history of tragedies and personnel upheavals, the California quartet's eighth album is mostly business as usual--and business, as usual, is quite good. The title track, "By the Way," is a powerful, bruised piece of slap-bass and intermediary white-boy rapping. "Universally Speaking" pays sweaty, soulful tribute to singer Anthony Kiedis's hometown of Detroit. And "On Mercury" sounds eerily like it could have been lifted from 1984's Freaky Styley. The band's reliable eclectic side, meanwhile, surfaces on the Latin-flavored "Cabron" and moody "Venice Queen." But the biggest surprise is "Tear," a masterful homage to the Beach Boys that suggests the Chili Peppers' perpetual state of arrested development may someday lift.